Natalie Massenet Quotes
Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.
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If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.
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The only way to do the best you can is to work as hard as you can.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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Ambition is important. Of course you can't get anywhere without talent, but there are a lot of talented people. To succeed, you have to be the most ambitious talented person.
